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...four ladies interviewed were Barbara Ann Paine, Charlotte Davidson, Catherine Allen Dickinson, and Mary Josephs, all of whom claim through experience the right to criticize their Harvard...
Died. Adrienne Morrison (real name: Mabel Morrison Bennett Pinker), 57, first wife of Actor Richard Bennett, mother of Cinemactresses Constance, Barbara and Joan Bennett; of heart disease; in Manhattan. A onetime actress herself, she turned literary agent and married Eric Seabrooke Pinker, later her partner, who last year pleaded guilty of misappropriating $20,637 owing to Client E. Phillips Oppenheim and was sentenced to prison...
John Chapman was one of them. He adapted himself to the change with the philosophic abandon of a publisher who sees himself on the verge of losing a valuable author. Besides, Chapman had another "boarder." This time it was Florence Nightingale's cousin, Barbara Leigh Smith -one of the "tabooed" Smiths, so called because the parents, being progressive thinkers, were in the habit of having children out of wedlock...
...trip got off to a ragged start in Santa Barbara and San Francisco, where movie actors are no novelty; but roaring business farther east precipitated a slight internal explosion when the members were forced to do five or six shows daily instead of the agreed four. Lolly soon quelled the uprising (her column is the most frightening bludgeon in Hollywood), thereafter kept things going swimmingly. In Manhattan on Christmas Day she spread cheer with a party for her "children," presented the girls with $150 evening dresses, the boys with equally expensive remembrances. Camaraderie eventually spread to the point where Actor...
...brightest spot in the play is Larry Sothern, who as Ernie Craig, puts over the very delicate shadings that make his part a rich one. Barbara Parmley, as the girl from the band, has a pleasing spontaneity, but unfortunately, the more socialite characters of the play, perhaps trying over-hard to make their parts life-like, tend to be stuffy...